I was just curious to see what you got, browsed your macro gallery could not find it - here it goes !! (BTW, you need to make a "New images or latest" gallery to help us find your recent ones !).

Stunning image here Shiv, love the color and perspective here. I think stone/agama is slightly over sharpened (I have not calibrated my display for more than 45 days however, so may be my screen issue too). BTW, I did not like the stilt image I made today so have not processed it still...

Great start, good luck for future experiements. Thanks for sharing your learnings, I am sure it will be useful to those who are interested..

ADDED LATER : Now assume you had a kestrel there

Thanks for the encouraging words Ganesh.
Infact i havent uploaded anything to website yet - Just processed couple of images one of them is above and the other one is from the KF perch where i seem to have caught something flying during the testing time

Baap re !!!! What a start Shiv . I too agree with Ganesh here, am finding it a bit too over sharpened as well. Superb composition. Which lens did you use buddy ?

great scape of your world, shiva, every inch interesting! really, helluva start.

regards.

Shiv, I am speechless. The color of the sky and water is so delicious man, that it makes the Blue Current ice cream go bland! The texture and placement of the rock makes the wafer go soggy and of course the Agama makes the cherry on the ice cream just like a casual topping. Sorry for the poor comparison, but I just got back from a rather lavish dinner party and I could not stop myself from admiring the Lovely ice cream they had there, but that was only till I saw this picture. All in all its a very delicious picture and I cant stop drooling

So you missing a backup body huh? Still interested the 350D with 18-55 (and Marumi of course)

Excellent execution....the dominating blues in the frame really give a very nice feel to the image... Good to see your effort in remote photography.... all the best mate...

This is a fine attempt, Shiv! The blue of the sky and the water contrasted with the neutral greys of the rock are simply breathtaking! The streak of cloud in the sky and the S-shaped pattern in the water are nice touches. And going by the image quality, it must be shot with your 5D.

The obvious things that I wish for are: 1) a 'wider' angle of view, that is, more super-wide-angle-like effect and 2) the subject to be larger in the frame. But considering that an agama-sized creature poses major challenges to both these objectives, you've done very well and since you've just begun, I'm sure you'll better this through the many more opportunities that I'm sure you'll create. All the best for Ganesh's kestrel to enter this frame soon.

Great image Shiva and great start. Loved the scale in this image and the rendered colors. Even the thumbnail for this image is striking. By any chance did you try using flash for the lizard and getting a more under exposed background ? That also seems interesting to try out.

A very fine beginning. I really know the pain of a setup and waiting endlessly for something to happen. I really liked the blues in this setup, the mirroring of the sky over water is nice and the agama sitting there on the rock watch the world go by is really interesting. I think we are now seeing a clear shift in really putting a lot of effort behind the scenes to get an image. I think in this case I would like to add a couple of things.
1. Leave a natural looking rag in a bundle at the spot in one weekend and next weekend use the bundle to camouflage the setup. There will be less panic from the wildlife.
2. The best tripods for this setup is the Gorillapod.
3. Time we got some natural looking fibreglass moulds done to mimic natural things. Like a rock boulder, a heap of clay or dung to setup things naturally.

Thanks everyone for the kind words and encouragement. I will redirect all credits to Ganesh for inspiring me on this.
@Nilanjan - its a Canon 17-40F4L
@Harsha - next time let me mix it up with some fruits
@Santosh - i did try 17mm but it looks way too wide and the subject "might" have become even smaller - thats one big challenge with wideangle remote photography. This i guess is at 40mm
@Mahesh - apparently as this is the first try - no use of flash or what so ever - just used a polariser to cut the glare off the rocks and get some rich colors.
@VMR - answers to your question
1. Leave a natural looking rag in a bundle at the spot in one weekend and next weekend use the bundle to camouflage the setup. There will be less panic from the wildlife.
<SK>Camo cloth is something we need to look out for. Here i used a couple of plants to cover lens and tripod.
2. The best tripods for this setup is the Gorillapod.
<SK> Picked up one just last week but didnt get to use it for this one as i had to remove the lens plate to put it on the gorillapod
3. Time we got some natural looking fibreglass moulds done to mimic natural things. Like a rock boulder, a heap of clay or dung to setup things naturally.
<SK>Myself and Ganesh did discuss about it during our "waiting period" while something turned up. We did have reference to the BBC Dungcam, Bouldercam, Trunkcam stuff.

very good attempt shiv...excellent image too.....once the craft is learnt we need to push our limits more to gain a bit form regular stuff....the art of seeing the image comes to place then..

All said and done, I will sit back and admire your effort for a long long time.